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Greta Thunberg: Protests climate change in Berlin two days before elections

Two days before the elections in Berlin, the Greta Tuberg to demonstrate, along with thousands of climate activists. The aim of the protesters is to put pressure on the candidates with a request to take decisive measures to face it. climate change.

“During the election campaign, ‘political parties did not take the magnitude of the climate catastrophe seriously,'” said Louisa Neubauer, Germany of the “Climate Preparations” movement.

“A big change will only be possible if we put pressure on the street (…), if we defy the political parties by saying ‘now there are no other excuses'”, he stressed, estimating that the elections in Germany “are extremely important” because determine the way things will go “in the coming decades.

The “Preparations for the Future” movement, which started in 2018 and has now become a key expression of the “climate generation”, is today organizing its 8th strike in more than 70 countries, with 470 mobilizations planned in Germany alone. .

Climate change is a major challenge for Germany

The three largest parties in Germany, according to the latest polls – the Christian Democrats (CDU), the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens – have made environmental protection one of their top priorities in their election campaign, focusing mainly on to limit the rise of the Earth’s temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Climate change, according to the Athens News Agency, is a major challenge for Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy, which has strong industries that are polluting the planet.

In mid-July, the country was hit by deadly floods, which killed more than 180 people in western Germany and are directly linked to climate change, according to experts.

However, Thunberg estimated that the result of German elections will not significantly affect the fight against climate change. “The climate crisis cannot be solved by political parties alone,” she said before her trip to Berlin. “We can not just vote for change, we must also be active citizens in a democracy and take to the streets to ask for action,” he said.

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